RE: Status of insight/gdbtk
"Patrick Monnerat" <[email protected]> Tue, 2 Dec 2014 14:16:27 +0100
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Mikhail T. wrote: > I maintain (or try to) FreeBSD port of insight <http://www.freshports.org/devel/gdb66>. I'd like to update it to match a more recent (preferably -- the latest) version of gdb. > When I cleaned-up the port last time (2007), I ended up creating a number of patches to make gdbtk-6.6 usable with newer versions of Tcl/Tk and iTk. It seems, a newer version -- 6.8-1 -- is available since 2009, but that in itself is rather long ago. Try cloning https://github.com/monnerat/insight: it is unofficial, but up to date with binutils-gdb, tcl, tk, itcl, itk and iwidgets. I'm the Fedora package maintainer and I've tried to keep it alive there until now. > Is the project still alive? Does it make sense to keep offering it to FreeBSD-users, or is it hopelessly incompatible with gdb-7 and nobody has funding/energy/time to bring it up to date? I've been told it is, but I noted it does not breathe much :-( Regards, Patrick